U+17DE8 "饤法" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饤法
U+17DE8 "饤法" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a historically significant writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character, like others in the Tangut block of Unicode, was decoded and digitally encoded as part of ongoing efforts to preserve and study the script, which features thousands of intricate, ideographic symbols. Its inclusion in Unicode enables modern scholars and linguists to digitally represent, analyze, and share this rare character, contributing to the broader understanding of Tangut phonology, morphology, and textual heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17DE8 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Ideograph-# |
| Block | Tangut |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𗷨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗷨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDDE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017DE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udde8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Tangut |
| Script Extensions | Tangut |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |
| Ideographic | Yes |
| kTGT_RSUnicode | 222.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1665 |